C. Panaccio, Ockham’s Nominalism. A Philosophical Introduction, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022

C. Panaccio, Ockham’s Nominalism. A Philosophical Introduction, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, 224 p. William of Ockham is a towering figure in the history of philosophy and is commonly seen as the most important nominalist thinker of the Middle Ages. His nominalism basically consists of three theses: there are no universals in the external world; no relations either; and no quantities considered as distinct entities. This book provides an introduction to Ockham’s defense of these po...